TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

According to the company, its food delivery business didn’t align with the current operational landscape and prevailing macroeconomic conditions in the seven markets, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Ivory Coast. As a result, Jumia Food will […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 26, 2021

In his suit, Marc Ginsberg, who was once Bill Clinton's ambassador to Morocco, requests that Telegram be removed from the Google Play Store and App Store because it encourages and co-ordinates violence, extremism, racism, and anti-Semitism, reports Bloomberg.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The company said its food delivery business is not aligned with the current operational landscape and prevailing macroeconomic conditions in the seven markets, including Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Ivory Coast. As a result, Jumia will cease […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

The startup is announcing the acquisition of Morocco-based B2B e-commerce and distribution platform WaystoCap for an undisclosed amount. That business model got WaystoCap into Y Combinator’s Winter batch in 2017, making it the first company accepted from Morocco. The company subsequently raised a $3 million seed round.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Founded by Youssef Benkirane and Benoit De Vigne last year, Terraa, which sources fresh food directly from farmers and delivers it to resellers, plans to use the funding to strengthen its logistics infrastructure and expand across Morocco’s cities, then explore new markets within the region in a year’s time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Last year, MaxAB , the food and grocery B2B e-commerce and distribution platform serving a network of traditional retailers across Egypt and Morocco, raised its $55 million Series A in two tranches ; the latter accompanied its acquisition of the Morocco-based and YC-backed WaysToCap. million orders within this timeframe.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Nigeria leads the way again with five startups, while Egypt has four, Morocco has two, and Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and South Africa each have one. Chari (Morocco). The company allows traditional retailers in Morocco and some parts of North Africa to order consumer goods via its platform and handles free delivery to their stores.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2011

The highlight of third day was a VIP Lunch with project sponsors, implementation team, and remote participation via skype from members of the In-Country teams in Jordan and Morocco. Widad El Hanafi, Country Director in Morocco gave an overview of the challenges faced by NGOS in her country and social media use.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Like many startups playing in the B2B e-commerce space across the continent, Chari digitizes the largely fragmented FMCG sector in Morocco and Tunisia. Once it gets operations right in Morocco, Chari plans to expand this BNPL service to Tunisia and other French-speaking countries in Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

One year ago, on June 28, 2013, at a diplomatic conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, the World Intellectual Property Organization ( WIPO ) agreed on a historic international copyright exception for people with print disabilities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2022

Appetito , the Egyptian platform that delivers groceries and household products to customers from 11 dark stores across three cities in the North African country, is acquiring Lamma , an identical startup with operations in the Maghreb regions of Tunisia and Morocco. . The deal is expected to close by the end of Q3 2022.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform. So far, its execution has been spot on.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Autochek expands to North Africa after acquiring Morocco’s Kifal Auto. Autochek was previously present in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. CoinAfrique classifieds ads marketplace is active in 12 Francophone markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Chari offers an identical offering in Morocco. B2B e-commerce platform Chari is acquiring the credit line of Axa Assurance in Morocco for $22M. This play is akin to agency banking, a branchless banking system in Nigeria and West Africa where human agents act as ATMs to offer financial services in remote areas.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It is used by over 100 companies, including banks, fintechs, logistics and e-commerce platforms across eight African markets: Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Morocco and Egypt. On the call, Mascot mentioned several times that the insurtech was built to serve businesses in emerging markets, not just Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

As Mylerz expands to Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, Fawry, its payments partner, will come along to provide electronic payment and cash collection services. Mylerz growth funding round was led by Lorax Capital Partners, an Egypt-based private equity firm with participation from Fawry, one of the biggest e-payment companies in Egypt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The Morocco Team discussed how Youth Without Borders is a networked network and the Yemen Team pointed out how the Youth Leadership Development Foundation is one as well. The Morocco Team blogged about two of the tools that were demoed, social mention and rowfeeder. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The Guardian reports that the software has allegedly been used to target journalists in Morocco, as well as political dissidents from Rwanda and Spanish politicians. This is not the first time allegations have emerged that spyware from NSO Group has been used to target journalists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

I have a soft spot for donkeys after seeing so many of them on a recent trip to Morocco. Made me think of American Foundouk (americanfondouk.org) in #Fes, Morocco which offers free vet care to donkeys – a very important mission in a city where donkeys outnumber cars and poor farmers most often cannot afford vet services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

at Stanford and spending most of his professional life in Silicon Valley working at various companies, CEO Noureddine Tayebi returned to Algeria to get involved in the country’s nascent tech scene to start a company and build technical talent in the Maghreb region (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia). After earning a Ph.D.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

Widad El Hanafi,Country Director, Morocco, @woodalisa. Al-Mallahi, Training Coordinator, @dalmallahi. Nada Hamzeh, Country Directory, Lebanon, @NADO23. Mona Messlmany, Training Coordinator, Lebanon, @MonaSul. Chema Gargouri, Country Director, Tunisia, @chemagarcat.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

They include Algeria, Botswana, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Seychelles and South Africa. And according to its website, only 12 African countries can send and receive money on the platform, but to varying degrees.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The e-commerce platform is available in 11 markets across Africa, including Algeria, Senegal, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. Jumia is currently the biggest e-commerce platform in Africa, leading hundreds of others, including Nigeria’s Marketplace Africa and South Africa’s Souq, and bidorbuy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Wheel the World now offers more than 200 destinations, including some new group tours that create itineraries for groups of eight to 10 with guaranteed accessibility, allowing travelers with disabilities to travel together and explore places like Costa Rica, Morocco and Alaska.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020. One of its investors from the seed round, Wamda Capital, doubled down in this new financing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The first day of training is this Sunday and we’ll be covering networked approaches for NGOs and social media trainers. The participants include in-country teams from six different countries: Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

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DataRobot

AUGUST 1, 2022

.” Just recently, e& enterprise entered a strategic three-year alliance with DataRobot , global AI platform provider, to launch the first AI as a Service (AlaaS) offering in the UAE, Egypt, and Morocco.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Freterium , a startup based in Morocco, is one such company providing this software, and it has raised $4 million in seed to scale across the country and into surrounding regions. . San Fransisco-based investor Partech led the round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Others include Jiji’s acquisition of Cars45, Egypt’s B2B e-commerce platform MaxAB purchasing YC-backed Waystocap , thus expanding into Morocco, and Cheki selling its businesses in Kenya and Uganda to Nigeria’s Autochek.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The company began production at its first regional plants in Gottingen, Germany, and Thailand, in September and December, respectively, and has plans to construct two plants in the US and one in Morocco. Gotion announcement, in Chinese ]

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Having caught the travel bug years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco, Peg went on to train teachers for the Peace Corps in Morocco, Mauritania, Lesotho and Gabon. Peg has international experience in education and training that provides her a unique perspective.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Well, for one thing, planning a trip over the holidays to Morocco and Mali. We'll be travelling in Morocco with some good friends. I've never been to the African continent before, so you can imagine how excited I am. The Moroccan part of the trip is the briefer leg - we'll be there about a week, in Casablanca and Marrakesh.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA. Joshi said Leta has a first mover advantage in the region and will continue to build and refine its technology IP, and products, to serve the massive gaps he sees in the market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The platform includes bookable experiences like hiking in Patagonia, sourcing textiles in Morocco, practicing yoga in Bali and more. TrovaTrip offers more than 150 experiences in 48 countries. To date, more than 15,000 travelers have used TrovaTrip to book an experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve been tasked with designing and facilitating a session for trainers during our two-day e-Mediat networked nonprofit and social media bootcamps in Jordan and Morocco. The training for the NGOs that have completed the 5 workshops from the different countries over the past year.

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